Re: Livedocs Deployment to End Users

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Well, sad thing is that we have some good perspectives with livedocs, but not much work is done on this front. We might have had some good chance to grab some coding hands with Google SOC, but we are quite late in the game :) Any ideas to help recruit more developers? I often think about exposing the possibilities of livedocs more to php.net users, maybe finding more developers, but all of them should accept the controlled development model of the source (which should not be a roadblock, as many other OS projects follow these semantics).

I think people get discouraged about livedocs, because it's so hands-off. That said -- what's WRONG with livedocs, now? There are few bugs open at bugs.php.net -- is there a big unknown issue? PEARdoc (& friends like smarty-doc) support is on my wish-list.. but otherwise, is there a showstopper?

I don't know of a showstopper. It will probably only turn out, if we push it out to a lot of testers. It might be a good idea to package up a manual with some pregenerated sqlite db, and offer it as some BETA (how popular this designation is nowadays :). Since the code gets pushed out, we can get some review and patches/improvements maybe. My only fear is that it is possible that we get too many improvements without no common direction, and not accepting a good percentage of them might discouradge quite some contributors.

Ilia, Wez, What do you two (as primary Livedocs contributors) think? S